From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
To: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, 21953@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21953: Eliminate warnings in the emacs-25 release branch
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 11:20:54 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86fv017vnt.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2fv02922u.fsf@newartisans.com> (John Wiegley's message of "Wed, 18 Nov 2015 18:06:34 -0800")
John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>> Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Sorry, but I have to say that I think this goal is firstly unachievable, and
>> secondly won't make the release any better. In fact probably the opposite,
>> by distracting from more important issues.
>
> I've never worked on a project where getting to warning free was not both
> achievable, and a good idea.
>
> For example, at one point the Borland C++ compiler had over 4,000 warnings. As
> such, every one of them was completely ignored. Later on, after much effort,
> we reduced that number to zero. While doing so, we discovered that a crash bug
> we'd been working for _days_ was loudly pointed out to us by the compiler in
> that same set of warnings. Had the warnings been "real" to us, it would have
> saved days of developer time, on several occasions. It's worth the effort.
>
> Having enough warnings that they no longer warn of anything is pretty much the
> same as turning them off. That's why I don't accept the "it's too hard"
> argument. If it adds another month or two to our release cycle, so be it.
> Emacs 25.1 is the time to get them under control.
+10
--
-- Stephe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-19 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-18 17:44 bug#21953: Eliminate warnings in the emacs-25 release branch John Wiegley
2015-11-18 17:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-18 18:04 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-18 18:17 ` Glenn Morris
2015-11-18 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-23 19:10 ` Glenn Morris
2015-11-23 22:04 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-23 22:47 ` Drew Adams
2015-11-24 3:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-24 3:40 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-24 17:40 ` Glenn Morris
2015-11-25 1:03 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-18 19:09 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-18 20:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-18 20:57 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-19 2:06 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-19 17:20 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2015-11-19 17:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-19 17:37 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-19 17:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-19 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-19 18:18 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-19 18:34 ` Juanma Barranquero
2015-11-19 19:05 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-19 20:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-19 20:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-19 20:31 ` Juanma Barranquero
2015-11-19 20:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-20 0:26 ` Juanma Barranquero
2015-11-25 20:58 ` Andy Moreton
2015-11-26 17:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-19 20:01 ` David Engster
2015-11-19 20:26 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-19 20:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-20 10:41 ` Stephen Leake
2015-11-19 17:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-18 18:39 ` Ken Brown
2015-11-18 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-18 19:19 ` Ken Brown
2015-11-18 20:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-18 20:57 ` Stephen Berman
[not found] ` <mailman.233.1447954214.31583.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-11-24 19:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-25 0:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-25 9:31 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-25 14:36 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-25 15:50 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-25 18:54 ` Glenn Morris
2015-11-26 8:33 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-11-26 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-28 18:44 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-29 9:13 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-11-30 0:38 ` Richard Stallman
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